March 31, 20155:00 pm

Campus Center, Amherst Room, 10th Floor

This talk approaches research from the perspective of Critical Race Praxis which challenges members of the research community to spend less time with abstract theories and more time on the ground with communities of color who are experiencing injustice.

Newman Center, Quigley Room

Ethel Poindexter is from many places. Born in Central America, she has also lived in Europe, North America and the Caribbean. She has lived in the Pioneer Valley in Western MA for at least fifteen years with excursions to different lands during that time.

Hampden Gallery

Diane Englander approaches her work as a poet, in the most ancient sense of the word: she is resolutely a “maker.” Endlessly inventive, Englander’s work does not hide the history or the pleasure of its making, from a curiosity about materials (a mix of scavenged, reused, and new) to a playful series of experiments with color and form, line and texture, volume and composition.

Integrative Learning Center, S404

The College of Natural Sciences invites graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to apply for Manning Inventor Fellowships, which provide stipends of either $30,000 (graduate fellows) or $50,000 (postdoctoral fellows) in order to pursue commercialization of discoveries made in UMass Amherst laboratories.

March 9—April 17, 2015

The UMass Amherst Libraries host the exhibit “Yankee Yarns: True Tales of New England Characters from the 1920s and 1930s,” through Monday, June 8, 2015, in the Learning Commons (Lower Level), and Special Collections and University Archives (Floor 25) at the W.E.B.

Learning Commons in W.E.B. Du Bois Library

Body Politic: The Anatomy of the Grotesque surveys the ways in which contemporary artists have used the grotesque to call attention to the perversity inherent in the dominant discourse on beauty, sexuality, and race.